The Byron Society of America is pleased to announce that the playwright Romulus Linney will deliver the 5th Annual Leslie A. Marchand Memorial Lecture at the University of Delaware on Friday, 8 October 2004, at 4:00 p.m. A reception for all in attendance will follow from 5:15 until approximately 7:30 p.m.

Many of you know Romulus Linney as the author of the successful play "Childe Byron," and some of you will recall that he and his daughter, the actress Laura Linney, read a scene from that play at the Hofstra Byron Conference some years ago. Linney's lecture will be "My Life with Byron."

The Theatre Conference recently offered the following summary of Linney's career:

Romulus Linney is the author of three novels, and five anthologies of over forty plays, staged throughout the United States and abroad. They include The Sorrows of Frederick, Holy Ghosts, Childe Byron, Heathen Valley and "2". They have won two Obie Awards, two National Critics Awards, three DramaLogue Awards, fellowships from the NEA, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Foundations, and both the Award in Literature and the Award of Merit Medal for Drama from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, to which he was elected in 2002. He is also the reciptient of the 2003 Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has taught at many universities, including the Universities of North Carolina, Princeton, Columbia, and the Actors Studio Drama School at The New School University. He holds Honorary Doctorates from Oberlin College, Appalachian State University, and Wake Forest University. He lives in New York City and Germantown, NY.